Why We Are Losing Our Junior Officers

By Commander Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., U. S. Navy
February 1957
The first of our Navy’s new destroyers stood up the channel to find her berth in the Navy Yard. Training completed, she was now going into the yard to have ...

Naval Construction on the Great Lakes

By Captain Marvin H. Gluntz, U. S. Navy
February 1957
The story of naval construction on the Great Lakes is more than the detailing and interpreting of statistics. It is more than numbers of ships built and their tonnages. It ...

Security Is Just Good Business

By Captain Stephen E. Jones, U. S. Naval Reserve
February 1957
One hundred and fifty years ago William Tell put it this way: “Even the most virtuous man cannot live in peace if his bad neighbor doesn’t desire it.” The implication ...

Admiral Luce's Pontiac

By Rear Admiral John D. Hayes, U. S. Navy (Retired)
February 1957
Not a modern automobile but a Union gunboat of the Civil War likewise named for the great Ottawa Indian chief, this Pontiac was destined in a special way to make ...

Force In Readiness

By Lieutenant Colonel John L. Zimmerman, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
February 1957
I Early in 1941 there arose suddenly the need for a body of combat troops, equipped and trained and ready to move out quickly on a mission of vital importance ...

German Surface Force Strategy In World War II

By Captain H. J. Reinicke, German Navy (Retired)
February 1957
Germany’s World War II surface forces were notably unsuccessful— unsuccessful, that is, if their purpose was to meet the enemy head-on in a great Jutland. Almost all of the major ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

February 1957
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Book Reviews

February 1957
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Professional Notes

February 1957
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